Swift was something of a comet junkie.
Rare View of a Comet The celestial soap opera that is Comet Linear continues.
The clump of residual core matter remained in what resembled the head of a comet, while the evaporating matter stretched out like a comet's tail.
Viewers were promised the first ever view of the nucleus of a comet – the mountainous iceberg that evaporates to give the ghostly tails for which comets are famous.
A fly-by of a comet went off flawlessly Thursday morning, giving giddy scientists only their fifth close-up look at the nucleus of a comet.
Sampling the surface of a comet is a high priority for the New Frontiers program.
This will be followed by the first ever in situ investigation of a comet nucleus.
I'd been there several times over the years, including to see one of the first performances of "Great Comet," but it took me a while to understand what Ars Nova was.
Investors have been nervous about the performance of the retailer's Comet business since a profits warning in January, and news last week that the division's managing director Hugh Harvey had left did not help matters.
In 1888, Heinrich Kreutz published a paper showing that the comets of 1843 C/18433 D1, the Great March Comet), 1880 (C/1880 C1, the Great Southern Comet), and 1882 C/18822 R1, Great September Comet) were probably fragments of a giant comet that had broken up several orbits before.
